Temporal Circumstances - Form and History in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Informationen zum Autor LEE PATTERSON, F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University, USA, is the author of Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature and Chaucer and the Subject of History , awarded the Christian Gauss prize by Phi Beta Kappa. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he is the author of numerous essays on medieval literature. Klappentext Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it. Zusammenfassung Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written! this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Historicism and Postmodernity Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of Philology Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of History Freedom and Necessity: The Example of the Clerk's Tale Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Clio and Psyche in Medieval Literary Studies 'What Man Artow': Authorial Self-Definition in the Tale of Sir Thopas and the Tale of Melibee 'Witnesses of Our Redemption: Jewish Martyrdom and Christian Sacrifice in the Prioress's Tale Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self

List of contents

Preface Introduction: Historicism and Postmodernity Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of Philology Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of History Freedom and Necessity: The Example of the Clerk's Tale Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Clio and Psyche in Medieval Literary Studies 'What Man Artow': Authorial Self-Definition in the Tale of Sir Thopas and the Tale of Melibee 'Witnesses of Our Redemption: Jewish Martyrdom and Christian Sacrifice in the Prioress's Tale Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self

Product details

• Authors: L Patterson, L. Patterson, Lee Patterson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2006
• EAN: 9781403974815
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7481-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, world history, General & world history, World History, Global and Transnational History, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Classical literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages, history;Judaism;Ovid